Our Story

When Fazal founded Crescentrating in 2008, his vision was also to build a Trip Advisor like travel platform for Muslim travelers. Then in 2010 HalalTrip was founded by Kareem as a Muslim hotel review site. In 2013, Crescentrating acquired HalalTrip.

In 2014, we started working on making Halal Trip a comprehensive online lifestyle platform to inspire Muslims to travel and explore the world. The revamped platform along with its mobile app was launched in January 2015 to start our journey to fulfill our vision. Since then, it has been cited as one of the "50 Most Innovative Global Muslim Startups" and the "11 most innovative Asian Muslim startups" in 2015. Today Halal Trip is the largest Muslim and Halal focused travel platform

Through HalalTrip, we strive to make place discovery and trip planning fun and intuitive... Read more

Our Story

When Fazal founded Crescentrating in 2008, his vision was also to build a Trip Advisor like travel platform for Muslim travelers. Then in 2010 HalalTrip was founded by Kareem as a Muslim hotel review site. In 2013, Crescentrating acquired HalalTrip.

In 2014, we started working on making Halal Trip a comprehensive online lifestyle platform to inspire Muslims to travel and explore the world. The revamped platform along with its mobile app was launched in January 2015 to start our journey to fulfill our vision. Since then, it has been cited as one of the "50 Most Innovative Global Muslim Startups" and the "11 most innovative Asian Muslim startups" in 2015. Today Halal Trip is the largest Muslim and Halal focused travel platform

Through HalalTrip, we strive to make place discovery and trip planning fun and intuitive with our growing library of travel tips and video reviews. We want to bring together the global community by encouraging them to share and review Mosques, Halal Restaurants, Halal food dishes, Attractions and travel ideas. It also includes essential tools such as Qibla direction finder, Prayer times and In-flight prayer calculator.

We will continue to embrace new technology and innovate, to enable Muslims to explore the city they live or other cities while they travel, a fun, intuitive and a worry free experience. Read less

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"Halal Trip is an app that helps Muslims traveling to new cities to find mosques and halal restaurants...Halal Trip has plenty of specific features for Muslim users, including an interactive map."

"To this end, Halaltrip.com is worth a look. It shares similarities with Tripadvisor.com, but it specifically targets Muslims. Hotels are rated on their quality and service, but they also receive a rating on other features, such as whether they are located near mosques or halal restaurants."

Halal Trip : Muslim travelers can use this application to find nearby restaurants while travelling that offer Halal food. The user can also add new restaurants to help other travelers

"HalalTrip, an in-depth information guide and resource for destinations across the world."

“For those who like to eat out for breaking of fast and look for new culinary places, you can try Halaltrip app to find recommended places which are guaranteed Halal. In addition to finding the nearest restaurant, you can also add your favourite places here."

"Halal Trip, an online travel website specializing in halal and family-friendly travel, has allowed its mobile app to give Muslim travelers a simple way to find prayer times and locations whether on air, land or sea. "

"The new feature instantly calculates the prayer times for the current location, the distances for nearby mosques and the time it will take to reach them."

"HalalTrip.com, which is like a TripAdvisor for Muslims, with city guides, reviews, dining passes and more."

"HalalTrip.com, has popped up to offer Muslim consumers everything from halal restaurants to a booking service for Muslim-friendly hotels, and a prayer guide that calculates the correct time for those in transit to pray according to their flight path."